[PATCH 5.14 837/849] powerpc/32e: Ignore ESR in instruction storage interrupt handler

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-15T23:26:29Z

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

commit 81291383ffde08b23bce75e7d6b2575ce9d3475c upstream.

A e5500 machine running a 32-bit kernel sometimes hangs at boot,
seemingly going into an infinite loop of instruction storage interrupts.

The ESR (Exception Syndrome Register) has a value of 0x800000 (store)
when this happens, which is likely set by a previous store. An
instruction TLB miss interrupt would then leave ESR unchanged, and if no
PTE exists it calls directly to the instruction storage interrupt
handler without changing ESR.

access_error() does not cause a segfault due to a store to a read-only
vma because is_exec is true. Most subsequent fault handling does not
check for a write fault on a read-only vma, and might do strange things
like create a writeable PTE or call page_mkwrite on a read only vma or
file. It's not clear what happens here to cause the infinite faulting in
this case, a fault handler failure or low level PTE or TLB handling.

In any case this can be fixed by having the instruction storage
interrupt zero regs->dsisr rather than storing the ESR value to it.

Fixes: a01a3f2ddbcd ("powerpc: remove arguments from fault handler functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Reported-by: Jacques de Laval <jacques.delaval@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jacques de Laval <jacques.delaval@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028133043.4159501-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
@@ -465,12 +465,21 @@ label:
bl do_page_fault; \
b interrupt_return

+/*
+ * Instruction TLB Error interrupt handlers may call InstructionStorage
+ * directly without clearing ESR, so the ESR at this point may be left over
+ * from a prior interrupt.
+ *
+ * In any case, do_page_fault for BOOK3E does not use ESR and always expects
+ * dsisr to be 0. ESR_DST from a prior store in particular would confuse fault
+ * handling.
+ */
#define INSTRUCTION_STORAGE_EXCEPTION \
START_EXCEPTION(InstructionStorage) \
- NORMAL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(0x400, INST_STORAGE); \
- mfspr r5,SPRN_ESR; /* Grab the ESR and save it */ \
+ NORMAL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG(0x400, INST_STORAGE); \
+ li r5,0; /* Store 0 in regs->esr (dsisr) */ \
stw r5,_ESR(r11); \
- stw r12, _DEAR(r11); /* Pass SRR0 as arg2 */ \
+ stw r12, _DEAR(r11); /* Set regs->dear (dar) to SRR0 */ \
prepare_transfer_to_handler; \
bl do_page_fault; \
b interrupt_return